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Annie Deppe

Submitted by Peter on Sat, 2006-09-09 03:25.

Annie Deppe is the author of SITTING IN THE SKY (Summer Palace Press, Ireland, 2003). She has a poem in the Forward Book of Poetry 2004 (the English / Irish equivalent of the Pushcart) and SITTING IN THE SKY was named one of the best books of the year by Philip Hobsbaum (whose workshop at Queens once included Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley.) She teaches poetry at Eastern Connecticut State University.

MY MOTHER SPEAKS OF ELIZABETH BISHOP

At first I knew her only as “that quiet girl.” This was Vassar
back in '32, and already she was rumoured to write poems.
She sat behind me at convocation where she tapped
her foot against my chair as Edna St Vincent Millay